Guardian Style is something I saw an advert for in, of course, The Guardian when we were in the UK recently. I tried to buy a copy in a few bookshops before we left, but without success.

So, I bought it when we got home. Then I realised that it is online...

Amusing, usually not too prissy, and occasionally downright wrong (examples below), but I am enjoying it greatly. And I am strangely comforted to have a more prescriptive reference on my desk than Fowler, if only so I can have something to go away from.

Some things that are Just Wrong:

• "all mouth an no trousers" perverts the meaning utterly if you remove the "no"
• the rules for capitalisation of initialisms are quite offensive to me. "asbo" I'l concede since it is said that way, but "Nato" and "Nasa" not good at all. Having said that, this is a newspaper style guide, so there is a need for labels of any kind to not dominate a sentence on the page, but still...

Posted by Dunx at May 3, 2008 03:54 PM